Status of Children Amendment Bill 2001 (Qld)

Queensland

STATUS OF CHILDREN AMENDMENT BILL 2001

Queensland

STATUS OF CHILDREN AMENDMENT BILL 2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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PART 1—PRELIMINARY 1 Short title. 0... cece ence t eee eens 2 Commencement. ....... 0.0... eee cee eee e eens

PART 2—AMENDMENT OF STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978

3 Act amended in pt 2 and schedule. .... 2.2... eee eee 4 Amendment of title... 2... eee eee 5 Replacement of s 1 (Short title, commencement and application) ........

1 Short title 0... eee eee eee

1A Application of Act... 2... eee eee ee eee 1B Act binds all persons ..... 2... eee ee eee 6 Replacement of s 2 (Interpretation)............... 00000 e eee eee ee 2 Definitions ... 2.00.06.

2A Meaning of "parentage testing procedure" .................0..

7 Amendment of s 3 (All children to be of equal status)................. 8 Amendment and relocation of s 4 (Instruments executed and intestacies

that take place before the commencement of this Act)..............0.. 9 Omission of s 5 (Presumption as to parenthood) .................205. 10 Amendment of s 7 (Recognition of paternity)....................004. 11 Omission of s 8 (Evidence and proof of paternity)..................4. 12 Amendment of s 10 (Declaration of paternity)...................200. 13 Replacement of s 11 (Order requiring evidence concerning paternity

tobe given) 2... cee cece

11 Order requiring evidence to be given about paternity or parentage testing procedure to be carried out ..................

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11A Parentage testing procedure reports...............0....000005 Insertion of new division headings in pt 3..................00000 000s Amendment of s 13 (Interpretation) ............ 0.0... Amendment of s 14 (Application)........... 0.0... eee eee ee eee Insertion of new pt 3, divs3 and4 ...... 2.2 eee eee eee Division 3—Other parentage presumptions